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Mab stared down at the woman in pain. She knew the woman wouldn't make it through the night. The best she could do was hold the woman's hand and encourage her. Mab knew it was completely her fault this woman was dying, but she felt no remorse.
Your suffering is bringing new life. These thoughts were all the justification Mab needed. These birth may have appeared to be a normal and natural birth to any outsider, but the truth is it was far from normal nor natural. To understand what is meant by this, I must take you back over a century before the pregnancy began.

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Mab was one of twenty members of the Faye sent to the planet earth to investigate and retrieve creatures which had crashed over a decade before the mission. The creatures had been on a ship whose mission had been to collect species from different planets for life forms from various planets to be brought back to the Faye homeworld for what amounted as a zoo.
The investigative mission had been a success and most of the creatures were returned to the ship and taken back to the homeworld. Unfortunately, only one of the original ship's crew members had survived. It had been decided that four of the investigative crew would stay behind to take care of any problems which may arise from the creatures which had been unable to be found.
Mab had been living on earth for almost a century and thanks to the technology she had with her, she had begun to be worshiped as a goddess. Over the decades, the loneliness of being the only one of her kind in her area began to hit her. Eventually she formed a plan and decided to have a child. Since her species was unable to naturally breed with the people of earth, she would have to have a child through less than ordinary means. Given the choice of having the child herself or having one of the humans having a child for her, she chose the less invasive means for herself.
She selected ten of her followers who possessed the highest probability of compatibility. From these ten, she ran rigorous tests until she found the most suitable vessel for her future child. She chose a woman whose name she never bothered to learn and continued her plan. She extracted one of the woman's eggs and using her advanced equipped, she merged her own dna with the woman's and placed the egg back inside of the woman. And that brings us back to the previous scene of the woman giving birth.

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The expectant mother's breathing became harder by the minute. She knew she wouldn't survive the birth. All she could hope for was to see the child before she died. She fought the urge to scream from pain and before long she lost. Soon every push was accompanied by a painful scream. What seemed days for the woman was only hours. Eventually it was over and a boy was born. The woman smiled and held the baby while Mab stared in shock at the fact the baby appeared fully human. She was tempted to immediately take the baby and hold it herself, but was stopped by feeling of compassion.
Mab left the room to allow the woman some time with the child. Soon the woman would be dead and the child would be all hers. No, not just a child but her child. She searched her mind for a name for her new son. Zane? No, that was too common. Her child, the son of a goddess would have to have a name of power. But what name? She thought further through her mind. Names of kings, emperors, scholars, and other names of men of power went through her mind. Eventually she decided one she liked the sound of enough for her child. She smiled as the name Merlin passed her lips.
Mab repeated the name Merlin several times before hearing crying from the room. Something told her it wasn't a normal baby cry, but one of loss. She went within the room and confirmed her suspicion. She picked her son up and contemplated how to dispose of the woman's body. Normally she could just have one of her worshipers do it for her, but no one could know she was not the one to give birth to this child. With sadness at the loss of her favorite summer home, she made the decision to burn the building down. If anyone were to come across the remains and happened to find remains of the woman's body, they would most likely think the woman took refuge inside of the building and carelessly fell asleep with a fire going.